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Now you can bring Cisco WebEx® conferencing into your company’s private cloud, for a cost-effective, secure, and flexible collaboration solution. Meet your organization’s requirements for highly secure on-premises conferencing, and deliver the same user experience that has made Cisco WebEx the market-leading, software-as-a-service (SaaS) conferencing solution.

Cisco WebEx Meetings Server is a highly secure, fully virtualized, behind-the-firewall conferencing solution that combines audio, video, and web conferencing in a single solution. With Cisco WebEx Meetings Server, you can respond to organizational requirements for higher productivity and employee-led innovation, as well as support more dynamic collaboration and flexible work styles.

Cisco WebEx Meetings Server also helps you comply with strict security or data privacy requirements, and support locations where Internet access is regulated or restricted. It also allows you to manage your conferencing solution as a capital expenditure instead of an operating expense.

Cisco WebEx Meetings Server is a virtualized, software-based solution that runs on Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) Servers and VMware. It uses virtual appliance technology for rapid turn-up of services to end users. With Cisco WebEx Meetings Server, there are two options for enabling mobile users to more securely access WebEx® conferences without going through a VPN. The first option is to deploy reverse proxy (or edge servers) in the enterprise perimeter (or DMZ). The second option, shown in Figure 1, is to deploy the reverse proxy servers behind your internal firewall, thus eliminating all DMZ components and related information security concerns.

In addition, Cisco WebEx Meetings Server uses simple port forwarding on ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (SSL) to minimize the number of ports that need to be opened in your external and internal firewalls. Back-end servers integrate with Cisco Unified Communications Manager for high-quality teleconferencing.

In large enterprise deployments, critical manageability requirements include user provisioning as well as the ability for users to sign in using their corporate credentials. Cisco WebEx Meetings Server supports these requirements by enabling you to use LDAP directory services for user management and authentication, or use the industry-standard SAML 2.0 Single Sign-On.

●Blast Dial Out rapidly dials tens to hundreds of participants automatically at a meeting’s start. It is ideal for emergency response and similar situations that require a way to rapidly form meetings. Blast Dial meetings include customizable greetings and admin-defined access codes and security parameters.